The VillageGreen will be off line until September 8th, and
quite possibly permanently.
Our advertising and subscription revenue has not been
enough to meet expenses, and is far from what would be
needed to hire staff and grow the site into what I know
many of us want it to be - a viable, professional source for
local and community news.
During the next three weeks, we will be exploring different
funding avenues, alternate business models and the
possibility of changing our coverage focus.
Please feel free to share your thoughts about the site, and
if you have any ideas on the direction we should take in
September, please share those too.
If there are business owners who still want to utilize
TheVillageGreen for its low cost advertising opportunities
please let us know. Contact me at editor@thevillagegreen.
org. When the office reopens September 8th, I will get back
to each and every one of you.
If there is anyone out there who wants to get involved with
this effort, either editorially or on the business and
advertising end, please let us know now. Your
compensation will be low to begin with, but as the site
grows, your opportunities will grow right along with it.
This may work, or it may not because our only real source
of income is advertising and - the hard truth is the
economy is severely impacting advertising in media
outlets across the country. I thought TheVillageGreen
would prove to be an exception; that may not prove to be
the case.
Today, I want to take the opportunity to thank the
businesses you see advertising on this page. They have all
made a commitment in these tough economic times to use
their advertising dollars to help bring back local news to
their communities.
They have all opted to stay with the site until we make a
final decision on its future.
I especially want to thank Herb and Janet Marinari of Big
Woods Farm & Nursery. They were the first business
owners to advertise on TheVillageGreen and have never
wavered in their support of our efforts.
The businesses you see here stayed with us not for what
TheVillageGreen could do for them, but for what they
wanted to do for their communities.
They recognized the need for the accurate unbiased
reporting of local news and they were willing to step up to
the plate and support it.
Please thank them with your business, I know I will.
quite possibly permanently.
Our advertising and subscription revenue has not been
enough to meet expenses, and is far from what would be
needed to hire staff and grow the site into what I know
many of us want it to be - a viable, professional source for
local and community news.
During the next three weeks, we will be exploring different
funding avenues, alternate business models and the
possibility of changing our coverage focus.
Please feel free to share your thoughts about the site, and
if you have any ideas on the direction we should take in
September, please share those too.
If there are business owners who still want to utilize
TheVillageGreen for its low cost advertising opportunities
please let us know. Contact me at editor@thevillagegreen.
org. When the office reopens September 8th, I will get back
to each and every one of you.
If there is anyone out there who wants to get involved with
this effort, either editorially or on the business and
advertising end, please let us know now. Your
compensation will be low to begin with, but as the site
grows, your opportunities will grow right along with it.
This may work, or it may not because our only real source
of income is advertising and - the hard truth is the
economy is severely impacting advertising in media
outlets across the country. I thought TheVillageGreen
would prove to be an exception; that may not prove to be
the case.
Today, I want to take the opportunity to thank the
businesses you see advertising on this page. They have all
made a commitment in these tough economic times to use
their advertising dollars to help bring back local news to
their communities.
They have all opted to stay with the site until we make a
final decision on its future.
I especially want to thank Herb and Janet Marinari of Big
Woods Farm & Nursery. They were the first business
owners to advertise on TheVillageGreen and have never
wavered in their support of our efforts.
The businesses you see here stayed with us not for what
TheVillageGreen could do for them, but for what they
wanted to do for their communities.
They recognized the need for the accurate unbiased
reporting of local news and they were willing to step up to
the plate and support it.
Please thank them with your business, I know I will.